Andre Yoskowitz
11 Nov 2012 22:45
Gottfrid Svartholm, one of the founders of infamous torrent site The Pirate Bay, has been in prison in Sweden for over a month, after hiding out in Cambodia to avoid his trial.
Svartholm is allegedly in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day, and every two weeks there is a court hearing to discuss his imprisonment and whether he should be released before trial. On Friday, the court decided to keep him imprisoned for two more weeks, while adding new charges including "suspicion of being involved in a second hacking case along with accusations of four instances of serious fraud and four attempted frauds," says Freak.
The original charges for which he is being held are related to an attack on IT company Logica.
There has been very little evidence presented in the Logica case or the new charges, either, at least for any outside of the judge and the prosecution.